Word

שָׁחַק

shâchaq · H7833 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

to grind to powder, to pulverize

Causative action by which objects are ground to fine powder with a heavy tool

Examples
Exodus 30:36 “And you shall crush some of it very fine, and put part of it in front of the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you; it shall be most holy to you.
to wear away

Causative action by which objects are slowly reduced to powder and wear away, as a result of being exposed to the forces of nature

Examples
Job 14:19 Water wears away stones, Its torrents wash away the dust of the earth; So You destroy a man’s hope.
to crush

Literally: to pulverize (people); causative action by which humans gain a decisive and humiliating victory over their enemies and reduce them to nothing

Examples
2 Samuel 22:43 “Then I pulverized them as the dust of the earth; I crushed and trampled them like the mud of the streets.
Psalm 18:42 Then I beat them fine like the dust before the wind; I emptied them out like the mud of the streets.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

4 occurrences in 3 groups

Not stated: I 2
מַיִםwater 1
Not stated: you (one person) 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

3 occurrences in 2 groups

הֶםthem 2
אֶבֶןstone 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

כlike/as+ עָפָרdust, dirt 2
מִןfrom+ הָher 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries

Impact002001001024: The verb describes forceful pulverizing, as in Exodus 30:36's "crush some of it very fine" and 2 Samuel 22:43's "I pulverized them as the dust of the earth; I crushed and trampled them."
Insignificant002001002015: The same crushing reduces its object to worthlessness, as in 2 Samuel 22:43's image of enemies pulverized "like the mud of the streets" — ground down to nothing.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

שָׁחַקshâchaq · H7833שַׁחַק shachaq · H7834 · cloud, skies · 21×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7833. shachaq [שָׁחַק] verb rub away, beat fine, pulverize (so Arabic , worn garment,…

H7833. shachaq
[שָׁחַק] verb rub away, beat fine, pulverize (so Arabic , worn garment, thin clouds; Aramaic שְׁחַק, pilverize; Ecclus שחק Ecclesiasticus 6:36 is go often (wear by treading), Str compare iter terere); —
Qal Perfect3plural מַיִם שָֽׁחֲקוּ אֲבָּנִים Job 14:19 waters rub away stones; 2 masculine singular וְשָׁחַקְתָּ֫ Exo 30:36 (P; of pulverizing incense, see דקק
Hiph`il); figurative, accusative of foes, Imperfect1singular suffix וְאֶשְׁחָקֵם 2Sa 22:43 (||) = Psa 18:43.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Impact2 occurrences Insignificant2 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0